St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 January 1894 — Page 6

W & FLOWER WITHOUT PERFUME. #thought of all the garden of girls you were the fairest bloom. Bdeamed you like a bud that furls ivs heart in xare perfume; ‘Seur every glance'and word and tone geemed beauty, truth, and grace, @na trom your eyes a bexuty shone thap gloriRed your face. | @ad o I dallied through the hours and dreamed .La: ml;t;:"s dre()]am, A Buda 5 > saxmer days and buddin owers made this old earth a-g'eam; . &ead as 1 from 1o e's fountain drank, with full #cstatic soul, Byowed with men of foremost rank I should my name enroll, But golden days and summer flowcrs will soan be past recall, &od 211 those rapturous love-lit hours aro buried » ath hope's pall; Bor upderneath that soulful mask that you essaved to wear, Bmow behold the coquette bask and selfishnes seethere. =~ = i

r Y g ¥ ! 4 JOVIAL PASSENGER. Il It was a lovely afternoon itoward | #e close of september when we weighed anchor and sailed out of the sever Mersey, bound tor Melbourne. We had a good ship—Janet's Pride— Thaded with miscellaneous articles. Sa board were fourteen passengers, ‘ _— take them all in all, a pleas-

~ ‘BhieTe WeEre iuree uld gouuicuavm ~ wlde were going out to share their \ ~ fortmnes, come what might, and) wiieh, poor old souls, they seemed to i think fashioned in the b:ightestcolors | Idne before the English coast was o.t 5 as sight. \ Then there was a so itary old gen- ; #Beman, who, judging from the genaxal tone of his conversation, wasl wmeking the new world for the osseosible purpose of finding fault with I B "Fhere were young married couples, | % full of hope and activity, bent| #pom making a new- home far away | Zoan their native lana. l "FThere were also a very jolly elderly i Brether and siste, neither of whom | Hagd ever entered into the bouds of | matrimony. but, instead, had stuck| By each other through life. | There were three old Austra}iani settlers who had been over to have a | @eep at the old country and who were i @ew returning to vhe land which, to | Shem, through long communion, had | Become the dearest to them of all| mbers— ““home, sweet home.” i Last, though not least, was a soli- | fMmry passenger who soon became the @et of all cn board. He was a man | as 28, with a clear eomplexion, a long 9sard and a silky mu-tache. His| ' - samse was Reginald May. His rei:on | © for taking the sea voyage was the | Baiisate state of his health. | Bhere was not, the least doubt that | e poor fellow’s chest was considera- | "~ BMpatected, for his voice, though | carmingly sweet, was one of the| - weakest [ ever heard: besides, its hol- | . Bewness suggested consumption. He | ~ miwsys wore a muiller round his|

BT i AFO L, S ALO AR TWt e s % ~. Hhoesd | ms - Pengl) my wide experience 1 never | Mp¢ With so many friends | 0 ivic steem, 10 .S Bur s Pinoß] ulegl' e s | S geeor the neverseemed so hapy Ging to his :'nan”E': ‘.bi‘.dflt(‘,s, ot \\h'\x‘“, .]“‘ e S sesess an inexhaustible storo. And Zais delicate young Englishman had made his conguest over all our hearts wdefore we had i een three wW.eks at He was, too, very clever with his 2amds. He could shape you anything 24t of a piece of wood, from gn oysS#r to an elephant, and as making : models of ships I n vermet his equal. Be was besides most, Kind and con- ! #Ederate toward hiss llow passengers. When the three elderly gentlemen ®Bo imagined th:ir fortu. es made ®erc afliicted with sea-sickness, he was the first to offer to help them ~ - Bdout while they slowly recovered He would insist on their taking his 3rm, weak as h: was him-elf, and he would lead them about on deck with | 3 firraness that spoke well for his sea f 28, &

¥ do not remember any voyage passIng 80 quickly as the one on board. I - @ould here make a long pause to dwell 28 the pl ‘asunt memories I still epSertain of that young man. 1 , We were within a week’s gail of,‘ Bleibourne. May had all but com- | #eted his model of the Janet's Pride, l,' which he purposed pres nting to me | 20 the night before we landed. He | ® worked at the model on deck, choos- j . ¢ Umg for his table an empty wat-er; L zask under the shelter of the bul- | #warks. He was always at work in _ %he morning long before any of the ' - sther passengers turned out of their mugz berths. { As I have stated, we we e Tt a! i

i ®eek’s sail f:om Melbourne. F;‘;h;fg L Esttime the jovial passenger ap-| 3 Jeared at the dinner table witha{i £ ®oiemn fice and silent tongue. 1! “aasked him the reason for : “#Bm bis wonted . 4 : i anner. At| . >q to evade my queries, but ns Pressed him until I won from him n‘(‘ax;;!armtimn: i (I *‘Perhaps, after all, it is only fal ‘fix,' 3t I should explain a I'7\l‘l.:‘s‘ he Sswered. ¢ 'The fact of the matter S 10y fr cnds, that my watch has ,n stolen.” i é"*"féfi-“flole:.f" we all cried. i %—r[n oubtedly. But I pray you, | *fi}tm ’ho sad irning to me, ‘“‘not | VL pettet ut it. The only | T G e loss of it of! nd bewh’\ch he fact that it Ac‘.;T;:r thems ¢ On thav acU ieh bvl i lost it for any e " n, Masss /\ S his ship we rou will leave ~my hands 1 T'his request ¥ s&ne by grantertainly, my dear sir,” 1 pab still——"

= «Exactly,” he intertuted, with his l | pleasan® smile. ‘You would like 0 ¢ investigate the case to the utmost of il your power, 1 know, my dear cabtain. But 1 can trust you to keep |! your promise and leave the thing en- | tirely in my hands, cannot 12" [ How could I refuse him? : You may readily imagine what con- | sternation this event gave rise to | among the othe:r passengers. The \‘l thee old gentlemen at once began 10| explain that they owned jewel:y "»0\ the value of £4OO which they usually | kept locked;up in a 1, own leather writing case; but unfortunately, at | the present time the lock was out of order. ] Mr. May suggested a safe dep()sit;i for their valuables. i Se L s T eR g O !

The young ma rried CORDITH &3 4 nounced the fact of the'r having ab ! least £2OO worth of jewelry, and \ they, 600, consulted Mr. May as to ‘the safest plan for secreting it. The kind-hearted brother and sister had, it appeared, more valuables in the way of jewelry than any one | on board, since £1,500 had never pur- | chased what they po gessed. l The whol> evening was occupied in ‘4& &chmabing a ALY able perpeT grator of t,lm’:aef: and in condoling

with Mr. Miay on his 1038, Evew one turned in that night in an uneasy state of mind, and it was with -astonishment that they found themselves in the morning in full posses‘\sion of their worldly goods. This | | improved condition of ailairs seemed |to reassure our passengers, who ab\ lonce again began to look cheertul and at ease. Reg nald May’s face wore {ts wonted smile, and, as heretofore, he charmed and enlivened us with his | vivacity and anccdotes. All the day | long he worked o1 the model of the l ship, stili using the top of the empty water cask for a work table. ] | That night we retired to rest with ! minds far more at, ease than on the | previous one. Alas! Wbhat a scene‘ | of anger and distress came with the | | morning! livery passenger on board | | owning jewelry had been robbed dur- | ing the night. ' | The three old gentlemen, the ‘ ! young marrie | couples and the kind-| | hearted brother and sister found | themselves minus every article they | | possessed. Even the grumbling old | ' gentleman had lost his gold snufr- ' box. } | There was no keeping matters | quiet this time. The thief must be | traced and brought to justice. What | was the wisest method of procedure? iWhub would Mr. May suggest? i I would suggest, though most re- | luctantly, that every saiior and every | sailor’s luggage be carefully scarched,” ' he said. ' “Jagrectoseeto that.” Iremarked. | “This,” he continued, ‘‘must be most humiliating to the feelings of

your crew, captain, and g,hcrefore.f:ll}i common fairaess to them as our -1 low men, suggest that every | he passengers was P a2r ‘,j}j;~,;~:;’ ;1.?(2@1;; to the last "\"“?E'n“, but our pl-asant passen qer ,[\"vl:n!\ contrived to bring those who first demurred to his way of thinkiag. **Of course there is not a passenger on board who is not above suspicion,” he said; ‘‘yet, in justice to the feel- ' ings of the crew, it is the feast we ' can do.” | This delicate feeling and thought.- | | fulness ou the part of Mr. May ren- | dered him more pleasing in our eyes | than ever. I | Many of the crew objected strongly to being searched, but all were com- | pelled to submis. =~ The old boatswain was wild with anger, and vowed that, it it cost him his {ife he would trace | the thief who had caused him to be | searched like a (ommon ri Kpocket. | Even the pleasant passenger utterly | failed to soothe his deep sense b in- |- jury. | Well, a thorough search was mada ! ; S .

W e e A sot SR WL e I |by myself and the kind-hearted old | gentleman and his sister. Every | one’s traps were ransacked from top |to bottom without success. Further search was useless. What was to be . Jg done? ‘ f That night, all having leen made | | snug and every one having turned in, I i I went on aeck, it being what we | ' call’at sea ‘‘the Captain’s watch.” | ' About 4 o'clock in the morning 1{ turned in, the second ofticer then coming on duty. My cabin was situated amidships on deck, and from | my windows I could see to larboard ? and starboard and from stem to | st rn. | Somehow I could not rest, so dress- 4 SRR R g se S e "™ 2

411 X & P S sm%lggsellr {iget‘evter;?iiggd to st up and and_looked out, [t W:;Y curtains. light of the ray | . " ng and there “breeze blowing. To my great surprise I beheld Leginald May on deck. 1 was about to open my cabin door and invite him to join me ‘n my unrest when the peculiar navure of his proceedings riveted my attention. He looked timidly around as if afraid of ‘attracting observation. Then suddenly, as if assured that the coast was clear, be walked rapidly toward the empty water cask, on which he was accustomed to manufacture his model of the ship. Once more glancing cautiously about him, he then appl ed his hands to the cask, and with a r:wH. movement lifted half the iop bodily off. My astonishment and excitement were intense. Another hasty glance around, and he put his hand down into the cask, then guickly withdrew it, Rolding in his grasp a small bago which he rap dly concealed in the breast of his coat. He again took a { hasty survey, and was about making | another dive into the strange receptacle for hidden goods when he suddenly withdrew, having quickly ‘| replaced the Ilid on the cask. lln an | ather momant, the cause of his alarmo

e R T was made apparent, as a couple of sailors passed liim on their yiay tore lieve the man at the wheel. : When all was again quiet, for ange instant he seemed dete;mined to re-g turn at once to the old cask and nofw doubt withdraw gomething more that the interruption had prevenbed his taking in the first place. put suddenly changing his mind, he went down the stairs thabt led from the deek to the sleeping cabins. Searcely had May dlsappeared whergl another figure stealthily crossing vhel | deck met 1Y anxious observation It was the boatswain. I saw hinge -glance toward the stairs down whicl® May had taken his departure. H & then made directly for the -cask. 1 | Was now oby ous to me that the olde E b(!)‘n.t-fiwain had been watching th pleasant vovager. = | w;ttlebrbc:: éhe b e reached ¥ \ ska heavy green sea struck the ship to windward, necessitatit \the boatswain's holding on Dy 1 ropes to kéep his footing, and e @ cisely at the same moment Mag peral‘rgd at th top of the cabin st g : selttiehlansgil; : ghe et stead ed ey - | his examinatio: atiswam comE r | For a moment o;? L. §‘ 2 nly May stood &

ab Dim with asovit a giance as € ey Isaw. With one bound he was upim | the sailor before he could prote f himself. I waited no longer, bigsd flung open my cabin door and sprang |to the rescue. In a few minutes w@ had our pleasant friend in irons. gs \ So you see he was the thief, aftee} iall, -hiding his knavery under "?_fi pleasantest exterior 1 ever met withs " The manner in which he had manufactured the top of the water cask was an ingenious piece of carpentry In the interior of th: sides of the cask he had driven several nail§ ‘about two fe t from the top, 68 | which he had suspended, in wash leather bays, the jewelry he had stolen. | You may easily imagine the siis | prise evinced by the people on bodid | on discovering that the thief was Gl | man for whom each and every onz il | them entertained such regard. &

| Avthe cxpiration of three dal | from the date of May's detection W landed in Melbourne and of course I | handed him over to the pol ce, hat! |as no one cared to remain in they | town for the purpose of prosecuting’ ]him he was summarily dealt with.: | The presiding magistrate sent.nced {him to six months’ imprisonment | with hard labor. | History of a Bink Note. Bank notes have curious histories attached to themin the way of hu. man comedy, tragedy, and melo. drama,says the New York Home Jour-. {nal. A collector at Paris of such | curiosities got hold, some years ago, lof a £5 Bank of Engiand note which

e paeks Seoshesmiur iR diosat e pas v s eey R e ‘had somewhat of actraxicilg&fl“%‘lg. ic()nnected with it. Fome § l;,_.{r ' im s g 0 the cashier of A TLE "g oAo T MMEENE < B¢ | a business ‘payment a Bank of n. gland note which he held up to t | scrutiny of the light, so as to ma | sure of its genuineness. He obserw | some vpartially indistinct red mark: Lor words traced out on the frony of | the note beside the lettering and on | the margin. Curiosity tempted him [ to try to decipher the words so in- | seribed. With great difficulty, so | faintly written were they and so | much obliterated, the words were | found to form the following sentence: | “If this note should fall into the {hands of John Dean of Longhill, ( near Carlisle, he wiil learn thereby ! that his brother is languishing a pris- ‘ ;‘oner at Algiers. Mr. Dean, on beingl ' shown the note, Jost no time in ask- | ing the government, of the Dey to ! make intercessions for his brother's | freedom. It appeared that for eleven | long years the latter had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers, and that his ! family and relatives believed him to ! be dead. With a piece ot wood he' had traced in his own blood on the SRR SN Y oR T S

‘| bank note the message which was tg | procure his release. The governmeunt | aided the efforts of his brother to set him free, this being :accomplished | on payment of a ransom to the Dey. / L"nfortunately the captive did not "long enjoy his liberty, his bodily suf’ferin,qs while working as a slave in fAlgiers having undermined his constitution. [ Teach Children to Gargie, 1 A physician in a paper on diph- ‘ theria urges upon parents the im- | vortance of teaching children to gar- | gle at an early age, and mentions the fact that during an epidemic of the disease in his vity, he taught his baby girl, only a little more 1%

IS L DVRET et bye YRR E L 4 iYears Old, o -Ia s uuu: 1 year glg Krand kept up the D actice rcgularly three time a day ' throughout the prevalence of the dis- | | ease. This is one of the small points ‘ in keeping with the tendency of the | | age, which is towards preparation l | and vprevention rather than relief. | None, perhaps, except physicians and & | nurses, realize the obstacles which | obstinate and spoiled children make | of themselves in cases of iliness, and | the helpless mother who stands by | with her despairing ‘*he won’t take {34 and I can’t make him,” adds to the bopelessness of the situation. A | chiid who is old enough to under- ! stand what is said to him is not too [young to learn that he must do his ‘! share in the fight for recovery when | sickness assails him. | The same paper states that itis a | noticeable fact that much larger - number of girls have diphtheria than | boys, ascribing as a probable cause | that, girls spend more time in doors | than boys, which should be another , | note of warning to mothers, and y | Cause them oftener to turn the girls r | OUL of doors after scho:l hours than i - |ls done. These hints are very timely - | and should be put in practice by all ¢ | Mothers, a1 ‘I-l‘-. ERY honest man is trusted too Q | far.

B e e & g T | HeME AND THE FARM. f 5 . A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. The PrcPor Feeding of Horses-—-Foul Ailr a Well—Stables Under Straw Stacks—¥An Improvised Vapor Bath—Hints to g ‘no_unekeepers. The Guinea Fowl. ‘ ¢ The domestic guinea fowl under # ordinary circumstances can hardly be considered protitable poultry, but their character, nevert! ekess, has tbe n considerably belied. Among i other obections raised against it are, first, its dispositicn to straying pro- | clivities:; second, its disposition to lay | away, by which many eggs are lost: and third, its pugnacious habit of %beutinz other varieties of poultry. We have it on authority of Mr. Lewis Wright that but for this latter babit the guinea fowl would iong sirce have been naturalized as a { game bird, having been turned into covert with perfect success:; but it was soon found out that the guinea l(:wls drove away other descriptions

s el T had to be destroyed on that ac-i lcount. Asa domestic bird, however, | these bad qualities are susceptible of | uch amelioration, Mr. Wright tells | s, provided the treatment be Kkind | and good. It is he admits, almc)sté opeless to commence a stock with | adult birds: directly they are left at| liberty they are violl,”” and probably ‘ | never return. But by setting egygs | an<er common hens and rearing them at home they grow up tawe and will flock around the person Wwho feeds them, and even allow themselves to be taken up and pufimi like other poultry. When reared thus kindly, and secluded nests are provided, they will generally lay in the house, *and \if perches are placed high for them, and they arc regularly fed every pight, will roost at home also. DO far domesticated they will pay to jrear. in places where they can have { ample range. The hens lay from

sixuy to one hundre 1 eggs perannum, l the eggs leing rather small, very vointed at the end and of a dark @ cream color. These eggs are of a B eautiful flavor, and there is consider- | atle demand for them in Lendon, | ‘Bwhere w> have often seen them ex@nosed for sale in little baskets lined Awith green moss.—rancicr’s Journal. An> m rovised V: P v ath. (8 et aredhot brick on end in a can, '@mall bath or other suitable vessels {idblace the latter under a chair, on the eat of which a piece of flannel is “Boread. The jatient, undressed, sits (@b this flannel, and be and the chair P®re well wrapped in blankets to exsfiude the air; his head is to be unB & - L s e g o R e

| cignigged. Oen the LIADKOIS & : ‘_ . ”‘:?'v"‘: .’I:"';‘y:’;‘“" yY; ) » % pint of boiling water over ! & orick, and keep up the steam by | BRasionally repeating this The & tient remains in the bath until reBived by perspiration. 7To make a bor bath in bed with hot water BRtles. fill aboat six oval-sha ed fl{-gailon stone bottles with boiling y Jacr; cork well and fold each in hot | B flannel. lay over the Led a . {Rer-vroof sheet and blanket: place y [§patient on these, cover him wth | ganket and distribute the hov bot- !‘ about him--one to each side, to the ¢©f cach leg, and tou the sole of es foot. Wrap up well with pxXtr nkets and tuck in to retain the p& For the spirit lamp bath, place'a?mp towel over the seat and beforr' front : <'of a cane-bottom chajpider which a spirit lamp is | !li;.'ht sand _over the lamp a tin | | vessel @ boiling water in it. The ' patienil veloped (except @he head) - in son &ore blankffbs..slns on the chair (88 ree perspiraticn occurs. | — Halll _uma{ of Health. | ’ ggfiatioxls for Horses,

; The fODer feeding of horsesis a | very gx)ortanp operation to the . farmer. E. M. Shelton, of the Australiap E&tion at Brisbane, reports the exp jment of a _trausier' company, as the practical iesults of th xzalu f cut hay in comparison with u % Iu the experiment, 3,000 horEs were fed a- dally ration | { consistic f sixteen pounds of ground i | oats, angieven and one-half pounds | of é’ut, stp™ A sgcond lot of 2,000 horses we fed ninetecn pounds of | loats not ggmnd, and thirteen pounds of ha}m&ut 1t was found th:.lt_/ g that atc the twenty-six the Mmes cats and cut straw | ‘pounds . kept in equal condition ! “thadsame work as those that !

J~7fi~¢:‘:fi4“"‘ e »'ZI!I.IU WULA QGO VUUOU lllldll! 'had thirty-gwo pounds of uncut hay and whole ¢fain. 1t was calculated ! that the grafn for €,OOO horses using | cut feed would have amount'd to 5 ' cents a day for each horse, or S3OO per day for the entire stable. 1n these large stables bvery detail was scientifically and systemati aly performed and the most earefu: econcmy practiced. In ordinary practice, the c_ost, of cutting the hay and grinding the grain woulll be much greater, and neces:arily the'individual gain would thereby be much lessened. Foll Air in a Well. I'saw, says a writer in the Globe- | Democrat, a method used the ;otherl day in Iliinois toiake the foul air out | of a well. The well was to be cleaned | buv the man thafitook the job was | afraid to go down until he had ascer- | tained the quality of air at the bottom. Ile let down a lighted candle, | and when it descended to about six| feet of the bottom it went out as suddenly as “if it had been ex-| tinguished by a whiff of air. That | was all he wanted to know. He was | then sure that the well had poisongus gas in it, and took a small um- | prella, tied a string to the handie | and lowered it open into the well. | Having let it go nearly to the bot- | tom he drew it up, carried iv a few |

feet from the well and upset it. He tepeated this operation twenty or thirty times, with all the bystanders laughing at him, then lowered the light, which burned clear and bright even at the bottom. He then condescended to explain that the gas in the well was carbonic acid gas which is heavier than air, aund therefors | could be brought up in an umbrella | just as though it was so much water. | It was a simple trick, yet perfectly effective. t Cucumbers Under Glass. i Varnum Frostof Arlington, gives | the following as his method of rais- | ing cucumbers in his house of forced | vegetables: The plants are set two ' in a hill, and finally thinned to one. The hills are two feet apart. About i three cords of horse manure are i placed in four trenches, 1} feet deep i by one foot wide, running the length lof a house 194 feet long. The majnure is covered with about seven | inches of soil. Cucumbers are picked iin seventy davs from the sowing of | the seed. Mr. Frost's forcing house |is 25x194 feet. Each year he raises .. therein two crops of lettuce, one crop | of cucumbers and one crop of Irench | preakfast radishes g own with cumepwßTCrs. The following are the aps : = S RERRNY. e R GRr R v S SO RTY

proximate crops: Lettuce (VUL dozeß | each crop, cucumbers, 15,000, rad- ;' ishes 500 bunches. He uses steam | ‘heat. Plants raised from selected ‘ seed are so started as to time that | “one crop follows another without in- ] termission. i i Stables Under Straw Stacks. % | Trovided the stack is held up by | | strong wooden supports, a stable un- ‘ “der the stack makes one of the best, | ' cheapest and warmest winter shel_ters for any kind of stock. 1t should | |be built so that animals cannot eat 2 away the stacks where it has no sup- ! | ports, as they will often do when | i forced to get their living from a ' stack. In olden times stacks of hay | | were often left to be eaten away bv | . young stock, with the resu't of | , | waisting a good deal of the hay and | , | toward spring having an overturned | , | stack, killing calves and sheep im- | e ienmad nnder it There is little of |

I PRSI IR AR - I eBTTk 3it B BT e ' this kind ot wastefulness among | | farmers now. The wonder is’ that ; i such management could ever have| ' been so common as it undoubtedly ] | was. ! } Hints to Housekeepers. i" | IN case the oven becomes 100 hot a | | pan of water put in it will lessen the | | heat perceptibly. ! | Ormcrora when soiled should be ‘ ' washed with a soft cloth in lukewarm | | water, without soap, but it should | | never be scrubbed. | : E Tage bualo bug isto be eradicated . | only by benzine or naphtha. Appar- .| ently nothing else will have the _| slightest effect on him. S | rpiiacanad BST

SLIC AL s R aracy and’ranEest of garden®weeds, 'yet in Russia the 01l of its seeds is used on salads, and itsstalks are good - as fuel. A GOOD way to test ham is to stick a knife under the bone. llf the knife comes out ciean and with a sweet smell the ham is pure and wholesome. If not, not. i A PIECE of chamois skin cut to fit the inside of the shoe will not only prove verv comfortable in cold weather and to tender feet, but it wiil save the stockings from wear. A Goon set of carpenter’s tools are among the most vatuable articles to have around the house, and they should always be kept in a box by themselves, where they can always be found. NotHiNG should be cooked in iron ! vessels that can Le couked in earthenware. The heat is more uniform, : the flavor is better preserved and there is less iiability to burn in the { earthenware vessel than in the iron. { T.aicx woolen rugs are the only | ones to be used in front of a fire, if any should be there at all. In such

rugs, if they are very thick, even a slicht fame may be rea lily smothered, while cotton rugs are very intflammable. Taere. is a liability of disease garms in the dust and dirt -that adhere to the ordinary wear of any person during the day, and it is wise therefore always to brusht your clothing every time you changc it after a day’s use of it. AN easy and effective way to cover over scratches on dark wood furniture is to rab them well with walout or butternut juice. This. at-least, hides them, as thic oil is of the same color, and that is the best that can be done with snch defects. The Circus as a Political Agent. “Perhaps the most brilliant ruse ever attempted was practiccl down in North Carclina a number of years ago,” said a politician yesterday. At the time there was a possibility of the Republicans carrying the State and they worked hard for success. According to the law the poll taxes were roquired to be paid almost a year before the registration took place. The Republicans, in order to secure their yotes, paid the poll tax of each colored citizen, presenting him a receipt. The Democrats heard this with dismay. It was a move that seemed hari to beat. The tax receipts were in the hands of the colored people and it looked as though every one of them would register. The ,I)emoc‘r:xts m(_:b the ditiiculty, however. They had John liobinson’s circus go through the Gtate and advertise that poll-tax receipts would be taken as admission tickets to the show. 1 doubt if a single tax receipt remained in a colored man’s possession by the time the circus finished its season. The Democrats carried the State.”—Pittsburgh Dispatch. ~ Coovrixg the world with ice cream ¢:nnot be depended on to warm upa chureh.

PETER COOPER'S ILLUSTRATION How He Cured a Merchant of the Habit of Borrowing at Ruinous Rates. Mr. Cooper was always a careful and prudent bus. ness man. He was always opposed to the methods of many merchants, who launched out lin extravagant enterprises on borirowed money, for which they paid ‘exorbitant pr.ces of .nterest. Once, j says the New York ¥Evening lost, ! while 'tnlxing about a project with an iacquamtance, the latter said he lwould have to borrow the money for ! six months, paying interest at the i rate of 3 per cent. | «Why do you borrow for so short a | time®” Mr. Cooper asked. ' -Because the brokers will not ne | gotiate Lills for longer.” i wWell, if you wish,” said Mr. { Cooper. «] will discount your note at that rate for three years.” ““‘Are you in earnest®”’ said the wouid-be borrower. . ' wCertainly 1 am. I will discount | your note for 10,000 for three jyears |at that rate. Will you do it?” : \ +Of course I will,” said the_m% , | chant. 2 ¥ : «very well,” said Mr. Cooper, - 1 “just sign this note for £l¢,ooo, pay- | able in three years, and give me your

check for SSO, anda the transaction i 2 complete.” *® “But where is the money for me?” asked the astonished merchant. “You don't gét any money,” Wwas the reply. ‘‘Your interest for thirtysix months, at 3 ver centum per month, amounts to 103 per centum, or $10,800; therefore, your check for S2OO just makes us even.” The force of this practical illustra. tion ot the folly of paying such an e orbitant price for the use of money was such that the merchant determined never to borrow at such ruin. ous rates, and he fre juentiy used tc say that nothing could have so fully i convineed him as this rather huwmeor- | ous proposal by Mr. Cooper. e mILEe B l'; The Largest Photozraphon Record | It is seven feet long and fifty i inches high, and is a photograph of a | relief mapot the United States show-

ing the oil-tearing districts. Yhotographers stand before the colored transparency in the north gallery of the Mines building and declare it ta be the biggest thing in the KExposition. and so it is from their standpoint. J. K. Hiliers, of the United | States Geological Survey, is the man | who made the wonderful photo | graph. i The model relief map was started !‘ three years ago. Itis made of wood | veneers, oue thirty-second of an inch | thick. each thickoess representing | 100 feet of elevation. The map was built up of these veneers, and theo \cnr\'vd in relief and a plaster 3 il SULTIRKING —ruee

T TR NN (SRR NIRINE W m; it was photo- ~4Q | graphed, the lizhts and shadows givi ing it a beautiful tone. _V)y‘h%:_‘ ! negative was transferred to paper ! the States, lakes, and nanes were i drawn in, and a negative was taken ! from it twenty inches s uare.- This } negative was enlarged to the size of i the transparency, 84 by 50 in hes. ! No ordinary camera could do the ! WOrK, <o the photographer made a i camera of a room twelve by fifteen { feet in size. The room was black- * ened inside, and made light and even { air-tight. The shutter was placed in i the window and the lens in the shuti ter. Mr. Hillers had three expert photozraphers assist ag him. The work was fecussed on a groundglass plate the same size as the phoi tograph. f A Savingz of Shees. { An experienced shoemaker says i that the stretching of shoes out of . shape arises entirely from dampness, . and that once damp, nothing can prei serve them. The only thing which . keeps them in good condition at first ~ is the quality and stiffening of the - lining. This latter once destreyved by

i o T N~ oTt WTeMY I v St o . the moisture of the foot, the shoe i ; sure to go. 1t is suggested by some : one as a measure of preservation tha* ; as soon as the shoe is taken off, it be ' filled with dry oats. These absorh . the moisture and in so doing, swell - and keep the shoe in shape, thusserv- ' ing a double purpose. l An ingenious mother contrived a plan for drying the inside of rubber | boots when water or rain had gotten f into them from the top. She fille | them from tip to toe with hw ! low corn. There seems to b -+ mecaus ol turninga rubber boot insiae ‘ out to the heat, but like Mahomet . and the mountain, she contrived to | bring the heat to the boot. Thissuggestion will be found of value during the coming stormy season, when the | little fellows like nothing better [ | than tramping through drifts higher ; { than their boot tops. : ‘ The Finger of Mercury. : Adepts in palmistry assert that | the length of the fourth or little { finger is the most important sign in | the band. There is no great man_-_. { no man who rises in importance in any line of life—without a long angd | straight little finger. The type ¢f | finger, whether spatulate, pointed o 3 | very nearly square, causes the ,C&~ | pacity to be directed into very diffep. | ent channeis: With the long spaty. ! late little finger success in business | will result, while the long pointeq i cne denotes tact and the manage. ! ment of people. This, indeed, is ! the finger of ‘‘wheedie.” The old | saying ‘‘to turn people round your little finger” is, like most old pro'verbs, the result of continued and t close observation, and in the cass of | the long pointed Mercury—as Ren { Jonson, in the ‘‘Alchemist,” ealls the fourth finger—is vndoubtedly en- | tirely true. | A WHALE’S throat is so small thag | you couid choke him with your fist, ' and he feeds on the smallest tlings in the sea